Thomas Lanier Clingman

Thomas Lanier Clingman (27 July 1812-3 November 1897) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-NC 1) from 4 March 1843 to 4 March 1845 (succeeding Kenneth Rayner and preceding James Graham and from 4 March 1847 to 4 March 1853 (succeeding Graham and preceding Henry Marchmore Shaw) and from NC 8 from 4 March 1853 to 7 May 1858 (succeeding Edward Stanly and preceding Zebulon B. Vance), as well as a US Senator (D) from 1858 to 1861 (succeeding Asa Biggs). During the American Civil War, he served as a Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army.

Biography
Thomas Lanier Clingman was born in Huntsville, North Carolina in 1812, and he became a lawyer in 1834. From 1840 to 1843, he served in the State Senate as a Whig, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1858, as well as in the US Senate from 1858 to 1861. He was expelled from the Senate for supporting the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and he became a Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army. He commanded an brigade of infantry in the South, and he died in Morganton, North Carolina in 1897.